Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
MARQUIS DE SADEIt is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature’s mandates.
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My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
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Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
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Sex without pain is like food without taste
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How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
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That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
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The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him.
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The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .
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What do I see in the God of that infamous sect if not an inconsistent and barbarous being, today the creator of a world of destruction he repents of tomorrow.
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Prejudice is the sole author of infamies: how many acts are so qualified by an opinion forged out of naught but prejudice!
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Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
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Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
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